A friend of mine fell for a Google Docs phishing scam yesterday. As a result someone got into her account and sent out a pile of malicious emails. Nothing particularly unusual there, but today she noticed a 'new sign in' message from Google, and it appears the person who harvested her login details was on an NZ based IP on Vodafone's network.

Does anyone on GZ have any contacts in Vodafone's security department? I know from previous experience it's next to impossible to get telcos interested unless you have a warrant.

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Surely if a phishing scam is being done from Vodafone then the company could initiate an investigation, without disclosing any personal information to the person laying the complaint, and terminate the service or direct to the police.

freitasm: But... Vodafone Terms and Conditions:Surely if a phishing scam is being done from Vodafone then the company could initiate an investigation, without disclosing any personal information to the person laying the complaint, and terminate the service or direct to the police.

Perhaps but if a complaint is laid directly with the police then evidence can be gathered before the connection is suspended/terminated. Personally I think its likely that this is a mule PC and not the actually scammer in which case contacting police who can then work with Vodafone should be able to collect more data and hopefully trace this back to the origin.

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